Cermak: Guidarelli won’t run for Schenectady mayor

Our columnistMarv Cermak will report in tomorrow’s column that Peter Guidarelli won’t run as a Republican to be Schenectady’s next mayor.

Instead, Cermak reports, Guidarelli will support former Union College President Roger Hull, who had announced he would challenge Democrat incumbent Brian Stratton on the independent Alliance Party line.

Of course, the landscape was changed drastically when Stratton announced he’s leaving to run the state Canal Corp. for the Cuomo Administration.

Here’s Cermak’s item:

According to Republican insiders, Guidarelli also will announce he will run for a seat on the Schenectady County Legislature in the fall.

The Republicans said party leaders are leaning toward cross endorsing Hull in the mayoral run. Democrat City Council President Gary McCarthy has said he is weighing a mayoral bid.

Mayor Brian U. Stratton will be leaving his job in March to become director of the state Canal Corp. The council is expected to name McCarthy as acting mayor after Stratton takes his new position.

The GOP is dead in Schenectady, dying in Troy as the tap a consummate political insider with no private sector experience – Mantello.

In Saratoga the GOP Boss is a meglo-maniac (Jasper Nolan) who will run again for chairman in September and the blind sheep in the party ranks will elect him AGAIN insuring the death of the Saratoga GOP.